Sondheimer’s melody is really amazing. The moment anthony sang on the boat, I couldn’t get into the situation. Those notes felt so unmatched, so discordant and so distracting, but after a few minutes, they didn’t. Harmonious notes gradually begin to stick to your heart, blending with the strange darkness of the picture, as if they were born as they should be, flowing from beginning to end to an unprecedented level. You can clearly feel that Tim Burton gives more close-ups of the actor’s expressions than in any film, especially the eyes. This is actually the highest requirement for the actor. The lack of a light will immediately make the audience feel that something is wrong, so you can see johnny Depp surprises you with just one pair of eyes, constantly changing emotions in sympathy, fear and smirk; so you can feel the absurd infatuation and tragic humanity from Helena's big and round eyes; so you can see With Alan Rickman’s slender eyes, a feeling of disgust and erect hair came from the bottom of my heart; but because of this, you can only enjoy the sweet singing of young anthony, johanna, and Toby, not from their eyes. I feel too much in his expression.
Another point that impressed me was the rhythm of the transition between lens focus and blur, the transition between the image on the razor and the real person, the transition between two misplaced real persons, and the transition between high and low, far and near scenes. Conversion... This kind of rhythm is closely integrated with the music itself, making the lens itself a strange melody, and I personally enjoy the invigorating feeling from it.
As for the "extremely bloody" that Western commentaries warn of, I think it's too much. As far as I am concerned, the bloody level of this film has not even reached the level of making me, a person who doesn't like blood, close his eyes for even half a second. The cut throat and spurting shots are very cartoony and have a special sense of spoof. Not only will it not be nauseous, you even think you can spray more and longer...
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From the beginning to the end, I held my heart tightly with the film, but in the end, the shock of the scene where Sweeney hugged Lucy and knelt in a pool of blood was so big that my heart fell like a high-altitude car. His out-of-control crazy eyes were scared, and there was a trace of sympathy for his occasionally sad eyes, but in the last scene, you are deeply surprised and shocked by the whole tragedy, and then there is a surge of grief and indignation. He did not shed a single tear in the whole film, even if the corners of his eyes were not wet, but when he was holding his wife and the boy cut his throat from behind, the red blood flowing from his neck was flowing along the blood-stained clothes. As soon as it hits my wife's face, the flow will never stop. What I saw at that moment was not blood, but tears that he couldn't shed at all.
After this scene, the film was over immediately. There was no time to buffer or give you any time for the idea of "Always explain it later", because the subtitles came out immediately. It's wonderful, really, the ending without breathing makes me deeply understand the true meaning of the word "tragedy" for the first time, a total tragedy, and the power that makes you sigh is so powerful. This is a movie I want to watch again immediately after watching it, again, again...
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